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J. A. BUTLER.

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ted July 7, 1896 UNITED STATES PATENT @FHQE.

JOIIN A. BUTLER, OF BORDER CITY, NENV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE IMPLE- MENT DEALERS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SWING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,653, dated July 7, 1896.

Application filed October 31, 1895. Serial No. 567,548. (No model.)

To all 2071,0722, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. BUTLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bor der City, in the county of Seneca and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Swings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This improvement relates to that class of swings in which a folding supporting-frame is used, and is designed to provide a swing that will be convenient in use, easily erected, compact when folded, and yet have the frame stiltwhen erected.

To these ends the invention consists in the peculiarconstruction, arrangement, and combinations of parts hereinafter more particularly described, and then definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is.

a side view of a swing constructed according to my invention with parts represented as broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Figs. 8 andat are details which will be more fully described hereinafter.

Referring now to the details of the drawbags by figures, 1 1 are the standards, each consisting of two sides 2, joined by crosspieces 3 and provided with braces 45, running from the cross-pieces to the sides and secured in position by bolts 5.

Connected by bolts 6 to near the tops of the standards are horizontal cross-bars or swing-supports 7, one end of each being slotted, so that by slightly unscrewing the nuts on the bolts 6 at one end of the supports the slotted ends of said supports may be slipped off such bolts, and thus said supports may swing downward on the bolts at the opposite ends and be folded within the standards to which they are attached. Near each end of the supports are notches 8, that receive round rods 9, on which the swings are suspended.

Bolted to the sides of the standards at 10 are the braces 11, which are also bolted at 12 to the swing-supports 7, and said braces are further connected by small bolts or rivets 13, which act as pivotal connections for the braces when the swing-frame is being folded, but do not pass through the swing supports.

I have shown two forms of chair, each of which is like the other except for the seat and back. In the one on the right-hand side the seat and back are formed of slats 1i, strung on wires 15, in a manner well known and therefore needing no further explanation here. The other has a seat 16 securely connected by nailing or otherwise to one of the rungs 18, which is pivotally connected to the swing-hangers 19 and resting on a rung 20 in the back bars 21. This arrangement admits of folding very much closer than with any other plan with which I am acquainted.

If the seat is pivoted to the back bars, as has been proposed, it cannot fold in so small a space because it. comes in contact with that part of the back between the back bars, whereas when the seatis pivoted to the hangers it can be folded up between them, as there is nothing in the way to prevent it.

The back bars are pivotally connected to the arms 22 by rivets, and said arms are connected to the hangers,19 by a peculiar movable connection 23, consisting of a screw-eye 24, a concave washer 25, and a nut 26, pref erably of the wing form. tion the ends of the arms 22, connected to the hangers, may be readily raised and lowered by sliding the screw-eyes 2% (shown best in Fig. 3) up or down said hangers, and as they are raised or lowered the inclination of the backs is varied at will. \Vhen the desired position of the backs is obtained, it may be held by tightening the nuts.

The hangers may be connected to the back bars in any suitable manner, but I prefer to connect them by eyes 27.

Arms 28 are attached to the standards and braces, which carry rods 29, forming a sup port for an awning or tent, as indicated at 30.

By the abovedescribed construction a swing-frame is formed that will fold up in a small compass by withdrawing the bolt at 19 and slipping the slotted ends of the swingsupports off the bolts 6, and yet form a very stiff frame when the parts are connected.

hat I claim as new is 1. The swing herein described, comprising the two standards 1, each h. ving an opening to admit the passage of a chair between its parts, two cross-bars '7, each slotted at one By this connecend and secured to said standards, the diagconcave Washer 25 and nut 26, substantially onal braces 11, each secured at one endto' a as described.

part of the standard and at its other end to In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

the center of one of the cr0ss-bars 7, and in the presence of two witnesses, this 28th day 5 chairs hung upon the bars?) resting in notches of October, 1895.

cut in the cross-bars, all substantially as shown and described. JOHN BUTLER 2. The cembination in a swing, of the back Xiitnesses: bars 21, the hangers l9, and the arms 22 piv- GEORGE F. DITMARS,

IO oted to said back bars, with the screw-eye 24, W. A. BICKFORD. 

